2017 Fantasy Hockey Consensus Rankings: Defenseman

We are less than a month away from the NHL regular season getting under way, as the first official puck drop will take place Wednesday, Oct. 4. It will be a four-game slate, highlighted by the Pittsburgh Penguins raising their fifth Stanley Cup championship banner as they take on the St. Louis Blues at PPG Paints Arena.

Armaan Kaler (DFS Manu) and I have teamed up to give you Fan Forecast’s Season-Long Fantasy Hockey Rankings. Below you will see the rankings for the Defenseman position as of September 1st. Criteria and other information can be found at the bottom of the article.

Info

Ranks

Rank

Player

Team

POS

BEST

WORST

AVG

1

Brent Burns

SJ

D

1

1

1.0

2

Victor Hedman

TB

D

2

3

2.0

3

Erik Karlsson

OTT

D

2

3

3.0

4

Kevin Shattenkirk

NYR

D

5

5

5.0

5

Roman Josi

NSH

D

4

6

5.0

6

Dustin Byfuglien

WPG

D

4

10

7.0

7

Kris Letang

PIT

D

7

7

7.0

8

Duncan Keith

CHI

D

6

8

7.0

9

Zach Werenski

CLS

D

9

9

9.0

10

Drew Doughty

LA

D

8

16

12.0

11

Torey Krug

BOS

D

11

14

12.5

12

Rasmus Ristolainen

BUF

D

13

15

14.0

13

P.K. Subban

NSH

D

11

18

14.5

14

Dougie Hamilton

CGY

D

13

17

15.0

15

Oliver Ekman-Larson

ARI

D

12

18

15.0

16

John Klingberg

DAL

D

12

21

16.5

17

Shea Weber

NSH

D

16

17

16.5

18

Alex Pietrangelo

STL

D

10

27

18.5

19

Justin Faulk

CAR

D

19

22

20.5

20

Cam Fowler

ANA

D

15

26

20.5

21

Shayne Gostisbehere

PHI

D

19

23

21.0

22

Justin Schultz

PIT

D

20

24

22.0

23

John Carlson

WSH

D

22

25

23.5

24

Jake Gardiner

TOR

D

24

29

26.5

25

Ryan Ellis

NSH

D

21

33

27.0

26

Ryan Suter

MIN

D

23

32

27.5

27

Aaron Ekbald

FLA

D

26

30

28.0

28

Ryan McDonagh

NYR

D

25

31

28.0

29

Seth Jones

CLS

D

28

31

29.5

30

Jacob Trouba

WPG

D

29

36

32.5

31

Nick Leddy

NYI

D

28

39

33.5

32

Mark Giordano

CGY

D

32

40

36.0

33

Shea Theodore

ANA

D

34

38

36.0

34

Mike Green

DET

D

39

40

39.5

35

Colton Parayko

STL

D

27

N/R

36

Nikita Zaitzev

TOR

D

30

N/R

37

Jared Spurgeon

MIN

D

33

N/R

38

Will Butcher

NJ

D

34

N/R

39

Jaccob Slavin

CAR

D

35

N/R

40

Dion Phaneuf

OTT

D

36

N/R

41

Brent Seabrook

CHI

D

37

N/R

42

Troy Strecher

VAN

D

37

N/R

43

Ivan Provorov

PHI

D

38

N/R

A combination of Nick Olson and DFS Manu’s rankings gave the average of where each player landed on the list. If one player was unranked he was moved to the bottom of the list without an average. The highest ranking that player received determined the order that they were ranked.